2. How to run a Lisp process using ILISP

To start a Lisp use M-x run-ilisp, or a specific dialect like
M-x allegro. If called with a prefix you will be prompted for a
buffer name and a program to run. The default buffer name is the name
of the dialect. The default program for a dialect will be the value of
DIALECT-program or the value of ilisp-program inherited from a less
specific dialect. If there are multiple Lisp's, use the dialect name or
M-x select-ilisp (C-z S) to select the current ILISP
buffer.

Entry into ILISP mode runs the hooks on comint-mode-hook and
ilisp-mode-hook and then DIALECT-hooks specific to Lisp
dialects in the nesting order above. Many dialects call
ilisp-load-init in their dialect setup.

These are the currently supported dialects.

allegro
Allegro Common Lisp from Franz Inc.

akcl
Austin Kyoto Common Lisp, the U. Texas derivative.

chez
Chez Scheme by Cadence Research Systems.

clisp-hs
CLISP by Haible and Stoll.

cmucl
CMU Common Lisp, the major development platform for ILISP so far.

cormanlisp
Corman Common Lisp by Roger Corman.

drscheme-jr
DrScheme-jr by Rice University's PLT.

common-lisp
Generic Common Lisp.

ecl
EcoLisp, the Embeddable Common Lisp by Beppe Attardi. A derivative of
KCL and AKCL.

gcl
GNU Common Lisp, the official GNU release. A derivative of AKCL.

guile
GUILE Scheme by the GNU Project.

ibcl
Ibuki Common Lisp, derived from KCL.

kcl
Kyoto Common Lisp, original version.

liquid
Liquid Common Lisp, the successor of Lucid Common Lisp supported by
Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

lispworks
LispWorks Common Lisp from Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

lucid
Lucid Common Lisp, currently supported by Xanalys/Harlequin Ltd.

mzscheme
MzScheme by Rice University's PLT.

oaklisp
Oaklisp scheme.

openmcl
OpenMCL.

sbcl
Steel Bank Common Lisp

scheme
Generic Scheme.

scm
SCM Scheme by Aubrey Jeffer.

snow
Snow, STk Scheme without supoort for the Tk toolkit.

stk
STk scheme by Erick Gallesio.

xlisp
XLisp by David Betz.

xlispstat
XLisp-Stat, a derivative of XLisp for statistical computations.

Support for Scheme and XLisp dialects is experimental and your
feedback is welcome. The `ilisp-s2c.el' file contains a first cut
at defining the Scheme->C dialect, but it is neither compiled nor loaded
by ILISP.